Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today's TV reporters, Murrow remains the all but universally acknowledged beau ideal. His fearless and candid World War II reporting taught not only America but Britain that journalism must be more than propaganda. Indeed, the BBC asked him to direct its programming, an honor he reluctantly declined. Later Murrow helped establish, at considerable personal cost, the principle that TV journalism must be as free, as challenging and as crusading as its counterparts in print. And he did so, unlike virtually any of his contemporaries, without ever having worked for a newspaper or having been steeped in print's traditions...
...past, foreign diplomats entering or leaving the East sector of the city had only to flash a red identity card issued by the East Germans. By requiring passports rather than cards, the East Germans apparently hoped to establish that the Berlin Wall is an international border --in direct contravention of postwar agreements...
...pledged to do just that, and nobody there had any trouble seconding the President's praise of CIA Director William Casey as "one of the heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still, the real reason for the gathering could scarcely be overlooked. It was, most naturally, the tender remembrance of old adventures, old times, old friends...
...songs sound punchy all right, real straight-ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...Mexico and Russia, unlike most of the early 20th century world, a fresco could still be counted on for political impact. Mexico had a huge illiterate population, used to learning doctrine by looking at images. Painting had little or no competition from other media. It could be as direct a form of social speech as it had once been in the city-states of the Renaissance. Characteristically, Rivera mythologized the impact of Mexico on his work after he returned in 1921 --and yet, in a way, he was telling the truth: "Gone was the doubt and inner conflict that...